Posts by: Jacob Martella

The U.S. Women’s National team managed to survive the proverbial “Group of Death” and survive is absolutely the correct for how they performed in those three matches. The U.S. didn’t exactly look like the dominating team that came so close to taking the World Cup four years ago. Yes, the defense was much improved, allowing

So after the success of Nuovo and the JM Breaking News plugin, I’ve restarted working on Giornalismo full time. I ended up getting a ton fixed on it over the past couple of days, but no one change was bigger than the font and a slight color change. After taking a beginner graphic design class

Going into this season, the outlook for the Texas Rangers’ offense was anemic. Last year was so frustrating with so many guys going down with injuries and not a whole lot of moves made in the offseason, there wasn’t a whole lot to look forward to this season. But fast forward to today, 64 games

The U.S. Women’s National team has amassed a grand total of four points and three goals. They were shut out in a poor offensive showing against Sweden and were lucky to get two goals against a stout Australian side. Despite the fact that they are in a good spot in the proverbial “Group of Death”

Yesterday I announced that I had submitted a breaking news banner plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory. A few hours after that post went up, I got the news that JM Breaking News had been accepted into the plugin directory. The plugin uses a custom post type with three custom fields — link, target and time

After succeeding in getting a theme into the WordPress Theme Directory, I’m trying my hand at doing the same with plugins. Actually the move to write and submit a plugin comes quicker than I would have liked, all thanks to my plans for Giornalismo. In my initial creation of the theme I realized that themes

FC Dallas started off the season incredibly hot. Through the first three games, the Hoops scored three wins — the only team to pull off the feat this year — and after ten matches had secured 20 points. But the last four matches have not been nearly as kind to FC Dallas. In those matches,

Given all of the pressure of being the United States in the World Cup and the location of this year’s tournament, it’s easy to understand why the U.S. Women’s national team showed so many jitters early in the Group D opener against Australia Monday. The nerves, both of the players and supports, were quelled for

So I have to admit that I was wrong. A couple of days after American Pharoah dominated on a sloppy track at the Preakness, I made the statement that the horse would suffer the fate of the 13 horses in the past 37 years who have tried to complete the Triple Crown. It’s just too

I don’t generally consider myself to be much of a racing fan. Sure, I’ll watch racing, whether it be NASCAR, Indy Car or Formula One, and I root for Dale Earnhardt Jr., but I don’t really watch it with the passion that some others have for it. That being said, I’ve always wanted to make